Ever wanted to blow up your life?

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The other week, I met with an enthusiastic career counselor here. Instead of making me feel like a scattered, unfocused flibbertigibit, she seemed genuinely excited about all of my ideas. It was affirming to say the least.

But I can’t decide what to focus on . . .

But I can’t decide how to spend my time . . .

But I can’t decide what to do first . . .

We talked through some things, and I now have the hint of a game plan. There is MUCH work to be done, but I feel like I’m putting one foot in front of the other.

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So James and I have a travel planning system. (And I don’t just mean the system where he wishes I would do more travel planning. I’m working on it!)

Usually, I’m the big picture person. I think about what general location would be good and when we should go. Then James drills down into the details like flight, hotel, restaurants, and what to see, etc.

If it sounds like James does more, that’s probably accurate. In my defense, I do a lot more planning on our local adventures. Although not in my defense, I just tell James “I want to go to X” and then he stares at maps and figures out how to get there. So I guess it’s exactly the same. #sorrynotsorry

This is why I was so proud of myself when I planned an upcoming trip. The whole thing! But it didn’t quite work out that way . . .

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Even if you’ve been doing something for weeks, months, or years, you can get off track surprisingly quickly. You can be derailed by a vacation, by someone else’s vacation, by an illness, by someone else’s illness . . . you get the idea.

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Thanks to a friend’s recommendation, I recently completed Gretchen Rubin’s Better Than Before. (Funnily enough, she read it because she thought I recommended it to her. A sure sign I should pick it up.)